Clarion 1980-11-07 Vol 56 No 09

LEARNING RESOURCE CENTEk
BETHEL COLLEGE
3900 Bethel Drive -
St. Paul. Minnesota
Dr. Spock (Frank Sanza) and the crew of the "Improvise" disco-vered
an all-girl planet in Monday's Nik Dag chapel (photo by
Mug Barkey).
The Sweet Comfort Band will perform in the Robertson Physical Education Center, Wednesday,
Nov. 12, at 9 p.m. Tickets are $3.50 in advance, ithrough the campus coordinator's office, and $4 at
the door (photo courtesy) of the Dan Newby agency).
e Clarion. Vol. 56, No. 9 Bethel College, St. Paul, MN Nov. 7, 1980
Nik Dag weekend transports 50's to 80's
by Brad Nauman
Well, men, it's that time
of the year again. The roles
are reversed and the wom-en
do the asking. The grand
old tradition of Nik Dag
has rolled around once
more and the population
of Bethel has been in an
uproar all week.
The action began with
Nik Dag chapel Monday,
when open season was de-clared
on the male popula-tion
here at Bethel. The
women were instructed to
by Ginny Olson
Back by popular demand—
the Bethel yearbook, "The
,Spire." This year will be
the first time since 1976-
77 that The Spire has been
• published.
The Spire was discon-tinued
a few years ago for
lack of student interest,
"not just at Bethel, but all
over, there was a lack of
school spirit," said Sandi
Covert, editor. Why is it
being brought back? "Peo-ple
began asking 'How
come Bethel doesn't have
a yearbook?"' said Covert.
She also added that these
is more of a sense of
school spirit now than
before.
make. a large replica of the
first inital of their first
name to present to the guy
when they nikked him.
The guy had to wear this
letter pinned to his shirt
the rest of the week. The
women were invited to
bring their "nikkees" to a
soda fountain at the school
Monday night.
Tonight, it's back to the
50's. The evening starts
with a soda-fountain-type
dinner in the coffee shop
and the cafeteria. Milk
Dona Amann, the assis-tant
editor, said that the
name "The Spire" will be
retained. "The original
meaning of a spire is the
top of a church. The
church spire was located
at the center of town. You
could look up and see
which way was north,
south, east or west.,..you
could get direction from
it..." Amann said. She said
this is what Bethel is, a
place where students come
to find direction.
The Spire will not take
the place of the Roster as
far as having every stu-dent's
picture in it. Only
seniors will have individ-ual
photos. The rest of the
book will be made up of
shakes, sundaes and other
types of "fast foods" are
available. The meal will
be followed by a concert
in the gym with the fan-tastic
50's rock 'n' roll
group, "The Scribes."
The Scribes feature the
golden tones of Bethel
alumnus Dave Broza. After
the concert everyone is in-_
vited to stay around for
ice cream sundaes in the
gym. Saturday is left open
for the couples to do what
mainly action shots. Co-vert
said, "We're going to
try to show sports, stu-dent
organizations and
student and dorm life."
Coyert, along with 16
staff members, is working
towards a 240-page book
with 10-12 sections. The
Spire is being financed by
student activity fees as
well as donations of alum-ni
and ad sales.
This year "Passages,"
the former Bethel literary
magazine, will be a color
section in the yearbook
(although other color pho-tos
will be scattered
throughout). Passages con-tains
poems, short stories,
essays, photographs, paint-ings,
sketches, etc., done
they want.
Over the years, Nik Dag
has proven to be a popular
event. Women get a chance
to go out with that shy guy
they have had their eye
on. The men get a chance
to give their wallets a
well-needed rest. Nik Dag
weekend is also a popular
time of the year for par- ,
ents of Bethel males be-cause
for some unexplain-ed
reason a lot of guys
pick that weekend to pay
a long-overdue visit home.
by Bethel students, facul-ty
and alumni. There will
be a contest with prizes
for outstanding submis-sions.
see page 3
by Ginger Hope
Cuts in this year's bud-get
totalling about
$100,000 were finalized in
August. Students, faculty,
staff and administration
probably feel some effects
already, according to Dean
George Brushaber.
Since salaries and other
employee compensation
are already under con-tract,
they are not subject
to re-examination. One
area where cuts were made
is the purchase of new
equipment for mainte-nance,
food service, dor-mitories,
athletics, and
science. Travel budgets
have also been hit, as well
as long-distance phone
calls and the purchase of
office supplies.
Another major cut was
the removal of the $15,000
experimental program al-lotment
from this year's
budget. This money would
have been used to test new
ideas in the academic and
student life program, ac-cording
to Brushaber..
Brushaber cited some
concrete examples of the
impact decreases might
have on everydy life
at Bethel. A smaller bud-get
for supplies, for in-stance,
might cause an in-structor
to use an over-head
projector rather then
distribute mimeographed
copies to the class.
Athletic team meals will
probably shift to more eco-nomical
menus. The all-school
banquet will be
held on campus again this
year, as the cost would be
nearly doubled if it were
held elsewhere.
Major budget revision oc-curs
nearly every year, of-ten
as large as this year's.
However, Brushaber said
that now the financial sit-uation
is more difficult
than usual.
The unexpectedly rapid
rise in the rate of inflation
affected it drastically.
Even if a certain budget
remains the same, its buy-ing
power is reduced.
Discrepancy between
expected enrollment and
actual enrollment also
forced budget cuts. Dur-ing
initial budget-plan-ning
stages, administra-tion
expected 2,080 stud-ents.
When final revisions
were made in August, the
prediction had sunk to
2,020-2,040.
Actual enrollment is
2,064. The loss of expected
revenue, while not as great
as feared in August, is still
about $52,000.
The leasing of the Cen-tennial
Gardens to accom-modate
the large number
of housing requests com-plicated
matters further.
Bethel subsidizes student
rent on all the apartments,
but at Centennial Gardens
the subsidy is greater than
at. Silvercrest or Fountain
Terrace.
Another unforeseen fac-tor
affected the financial
situation: the final figure
on federal work-study
funds was roughly $25,000
less than expected.
But Dan Nelson, direc-tor
of financial aid, said
this decrease has been off-set
by an unexpected in-crease
of about $23,000 in
state work-study aid, so
the student employment
program will be able to
handle federal cut-backs.
Spire aspires to point direction
Budget cuts hit Bethel
letters
Lifestyle renewal denies adulthood
editorial
Lifestyle issue solved
only by individuals
Thou shalt not . . . . Every Bethel student knows the
dictates of the lifestyle statement. We also know that
many break that standard. The problem is a complex
one, In an effort to counter apathetic attitudes, the stu-dent
senate has voted to require that all students re-sign
the lifestyle statement each semester.
While at first glance this idea seems admirable, for it
is at least an attempt at a solution, it raises some legal
and ethical questions that must be considered.
The new recommendation assumes that the length of
time between freshman year, when the contract is sign-ed,
and senior year dulls concern for keeping our word.
By re-signing the statement, raised awareness will
supposedly cause us to keep our word more diligently.
The problem does not lie in unawareness. All of us
know about the lifestyle. Chapel speakers try to shame
us with it and we are either amused or shocked by
friends' infractions of it..How could we not know?
The new re-signing recommendation, in effect, says
that we are responsible for our word for only one
semester at a time. Do we value our word so little?
The policy also raises some legal questions. Can the
administration require everyone to sign the statement
when they signed it under the impression that the con-tract
would be binding for four years? If, for some
reason, a person could not sign the statement one
semester, could that person be held to their word by a
previous signature? What could be done with those
who refuse to sign it again? Requiring something new
of students may be a breach of contract.
This recommendation at least tries to find some
answers to a question many of us only wink- at. This
solution, however, raises more questions than answers.
The problem does not lie in unawareness—it lies in a
basic disregard for the keeping of our word. And that
problem cannot be solved by student senate starting
administrative policy. The solution must come from
within each of us as individuals.
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Dear Editor,
In last week's Clarion I
read of the Student Sen-ate's
action recommending
"Lifestyle commitment re-newal"
for every student
as part of each semester's
registration. This action
bears unhappy similari-ties
to "loyalty oaths" re-quired
at various times in
history; the need to know
who's "in" and who's "out"
is often the symptom of an
inability to tolerate per-iods
of change and ambi-guity.
Leaving this parallel
aside, however, I would
like to contrast this action
with a statement in a
memo to faculty from the
director of academic af-fairs
issued last week;
"...the college seeks to
treat its students as re-sponsible
and indepen-dent
adults."
While I am in full agree-ment
with this attitude
toward students, I find
senate's action objection-able
because it reflects the
opposite stance. "Lifestyle
commitment renewals" (in
writing) seem to be in a
class with warnings we
give to children regarding
matters such as talking to
strangers, not crossing the
street without a parent,
not taking a cookie with-out
consent, etc.
Obvious reminders such
as these are given when
we assume that the child
cannot or will not remem-ber
the prohibitions on his
or her own. Much of the
force of such reminders
derives from a manipula-tion
of the guilt feelings of
the child. Responsible and
independent adults can
remember such prohibi-tions;
whether or not they
will follow them is their
responsibility as adults.
To attempt to control
the behavior of adults by
the manipulation of guilt
feelings is to deny their
adulthood; it may even re-sult
in regression to child-like
behavior. I trust we'll
not only say we regard
Bethel students as respons-ible
adults, but that we'll
also adopt this attitude
and strive to make our
policies reflect it. To do
otherwise is hypocritical.
Senate's action is troub-ling
on another, perhaps
deeper, level. The implicit
assumption that a stu-dent's
commitment to Be-thel
College is summed up
in the lifestyle is naive
and, I would suggest, con-trary
to the, aims of the
college.
A student's commit-ment
to Bethel should be a
commitment to engage in
the process of learning,
growth and discovery. It
should be a pledge to intel-lectual
curiosity, honesty,
and discipline, a covenant
with other seekers of the
truth to engage in the task
wholeheartedly. The life-tyle
a Bethel student com-mits
her/himself to is one
which demands Christian
discipleship, an aware-ness
of the social, politi-cal,
and economic dimen-sions
of the good news
and a commitment to
bringing that redemptive
message to bear on our
society and world.
If we fail to see these
dimensions of our life to-gether
at Bethel, or rely
exclusively on a code of
individual conduct as the
sole criterion for member-ship
in the community, we
do not deserve to call
ourselves a Christian lib-eral
arts college, a learn-ing
community.
When will Bethel stu-dents
"come of age?"
When we, the members of
this community, truly
treat each other as re-sponsible
adults and com-mit
ourselves fully to the
many dimensions of our
common task.
Respectfully yours,
Don Postema
Dear Editor:
I am writing to express
the difficulty I often ex-perience
on weekends in
my search for quiet study
space. It is hard for me to
understand why in an aca-demic
community more
provision is not made for
the serious student to
have this basic need met.
I am speaking particu-larly
about the shortened
library hours- on Friday
evening, Saturday morn-ing
and Sunday afternoon
and evening. These times
are perhaps my most avail-able
and therefore valua-ble
times for prolonged
periods of uninterrupted
study.
I am often hampered by
the shorter weekend hours
from being able to conven-iently
do necessary re-search
in the LRC that is
not possible in my sche-dule
during the rest of the
week. The classrooms
which are designated as
study areas when the li-brary
is not open do not
help me in this regard.
I feel that making the
services of the LRC read-ily
available should be
more of a priority in an
academic community.
Shortened library hours
on weekends would seem
to reflect a relatively low
concern for meeting the
academic needs of the
Bethel student body.
Sincerely,
Gwen Knight
Clarification: The student senate has voted to instigate
the re-signing of lifestyle statements as reported Oct. 24,
but that recommendation must be processed by the admin-istration
and faculty before acceptance as policy.
Peter Meintsma is in favor of property tax reform, not
property tax as reported Oct. 17.
Editor's note: We appreciate the help of readers in main-taining
the accuracy, and therefore the integrity, of this
newspaper.
Paul Redin, director of career counseling and placement (photo
by Paul Gavic).
Tuesday nights see the transformation of mild-mannered reporters and editors into frenzied layout
"experts," as the Clarion takes its rough form, ready for keylining (photo by Doug Barkey).
Page 3
by Naomi Ludeman
A well-rounded person-ality
speaks louder than a
high grade point average.
(GPA) when applying for
jobs, said Paul Redin, dir-ector
of career counseling
and placement.
"All employers evaluate
a prospective employee's
GPA. The question is: how
important is it to the actual
decision?" Redin said that
"the GPA is only part of
the story. An employer
weighs a variety of fea-tures
such as work expe-rience,
social activities, or-ganizational
abilities, hob-bies
and interests and edu-cational
experience."
Redin feels that students
have a narrow view of
what is important in get-ting
a job. GPA and degree
are trivial compared to the
character of the individ-ual.
Education is impor-tant,
but.so is work exper-ience.
However, the experience
does not necessarily have
to be in the area of work in
which one applies. The im-portance
of the work exper-ience
is having a job and
knowing how to work, said
Redin. Character and evi-dence
to back it up are
more important to an em-
To the Editor:
Concerning the article
on the work-study program
I would like to extend a
word of caution to any one
who is considering invol-vement
in this program.
When I was a freshman I
Spire
from page 1
Passages had become
expensive to print; the
cost of incorporating it
with a yearbook is not
that much more. Student
senate, after taking a. sur-vey,
approached Covert
with the idea of edit-ing
both. She said, "I
wanted what the students
wanted. I didn't want to
do something that would
be thrown away."
Covert hopes to present
a Christian perspective in
The Spire. "Our school
isn't like any other school,"
said Covert. She hopes
that The Spire will help
distinguish Bethel from
'other colleges, in the realm
of yearbooks, too.
ployer.
Different employers,
even within the same com-pany,
look at different qual-ities
of the prospective em-ployee.
Employers of tech-nical
and other clearly de-fined
jobs look closely at
the GPA in a particular
area said Redin. These
areas could include corn-puter
science, accounting,
research chemistry and
medical and graduate
school.
However, in less defined
jobs, such as teaching, an
employer looks at the per-son's
organizational abili-ties,
personality and abil-ity
to relate to students as
more important to the hir-ing
decision than grades.
Ivan Ludeman, an employer
of teachers for the Rich-field
Public School District
agreed. "The GPA is impor-tant
but the character of
the individual is much
more important," he said.
Redin commented that
"both the high and low
GPA is a drawback. When
I was looking at a prospec-tive
teacher of math with
a 4.0 GPA I Was more crit-ical.
- I evaluated heavily
on the personality of the
person and his ability to
relate to the student who
was involved in this pro-gram.
When time came to pay
my second semester bill I
was surprised to find that
my bill had gone up a sub-stantial
amount. When I
inquired as to the nature
of this increase I was told
it was'clue to work-study.
They had taken the esti-mate
of my earnings over
each semester and subtract-ed
it from my aid package.
I had been misled to be-lieve
that this was extra
money, when in fact I was
working for money I alrea-dy
had.
I am not in any way dis-couraging
involvement in
the program, I am just cau-tioning
those who are con-templating
involvement. Be-fore
signing up for:work-study,
for your own good
check carefully your finan-cial
aid package. Do not
get caught like I did, hay--
ing to pay for being in
work-study.
Mike Nelson
PO Box 1056
had a hard time understand-ing
math."
It is obvious why a low
GPA is a drawback. How-ever,
the prospective em-ployee
should explain to
the employer, if the expla-nation
is credible, the rea-son
for the poor grades
that brought the GPA
down.
Applying for almost any
job requires a resume. Re-din
said, "A resume is an
argument about whether
you should be hired for
that particular job. If the
GPA is part of the argu-ment
then include it." A
GPA does not have to be
on the resume if it is not
Sugar and salt,
staples coming
to mini-grocery
by Randy Pate
Bethel's student senate
sees a need for a mini-grocery
and plans to do
something about it. With-in
a few weeks a small-scale
grocery store will
open for business in the
cafeteria.
The store will contain
non-refrigerated goods
such as flour, sugar, salt
and other staples. The
wellness committee, head-ed
by Don Mortenson, dir-ector
of residence life, is
making a list of items need-ed
by students which they
cannot purchase on cam-pus.
The store will not sell
dairy products because the
coffee shop already has
them.
The food service will
package and price the food.
Prices will be marked up
ten per cent from their ori-ginal
cost to the food ser-vice.
Five per cent goes to
a general school fund while
the other five per cent goes
directly to the food ser-vice
to pay for any pack-aging
that might be need-ed.
For example, flour
comes in bulk and must
be repackaged into small-er
parcels before selling.
A purchasing system
has yet to be decided. The
senate will either have peo-ple
supervise the store or
have all items checked out
through cafeteria cashiers.
The senate hopes the
store will open no later
than mid-November. It
will be located in the cafe-teria
just behind the regis-ters
where the salad dress-ings
are usually set out.
important to getting the
job.
Redin said that if the
prospective employee suc-cessfully
answers the fol-lowing
two questions for
the employer, he will pro-bably
get the job: 1) What
are my skills for this job?
2) What kind of person am
I so that I would do well at
this job?
So what is the answer
to the importance of the
GPA? Said Redin, "Do
your very best in college.
Work hard and discipline
yourself. A recommenda-tion
from a teacher or ad-visor
is more important
than your GPA. How you
handled a class that you
hated says more to the
employer than just good
grades."
by Laura Phillips
Publishing the Clarion
is a never-ending job that
involves a lot of work.
"I don't think anybody
knows how much work it
takes to put this thing toge-ther,"
said Editor Joy Ban-ta.
Operating on a two-week
production schedule, a Clar-ion
issue goes through the
following process:
Friday afternoon—story
ideas meeting (for paper
published two weeks later)
—student writers bring in
stories assigned the pre-vious
week
—story assignments go out
Saturday-Monday—more
story assignments go out
—copy reading/prepare for
typesetting
Employers want character over GPA
Work-study program
may give and take
—deliver copy to typeset-ter
Tuesday morning—late co-py
reading/prepare for
typesetting
—deliver copy to typesetter.
setter
Tuesday afternoon—pick
up typeset proofs from
typesetter'
Tuesday evening ("Mara-thon
Night")—layout:
proofreading, headlines,
captions, photo cropping
Wednesday morning—de-livery
finished layout to
typesetter
Thursday afternoon—list
necessary corrections af-ter
proofreading
—typesetter reviews and
makes corrections
,Thursday late afternoon-pick
up photo-ready layout
from typesetter, checking
for corrections
—deliver layout and pho-tos
to printer
Friday noon—newspapers
delivered to Bethel
—stuff P.O.s
The entire cycle then be-gins
again.
Begun in 1921, the Clar-ion
currently has a circu-lation
of about 2,600. This
includes students, college
and seminary faculty and
staff, some alumni and
others on the Clarion's mail-ing
list (other schools,
friends of Bethel, adver-tisers,
etc.).
The Clarion operates on
a $21,500 yearly budget
which includes a $9,000
stipend allowance for the
Clarion staff. Stipends
range from $200-$1200 for
each of the 12 to 15 regular
staff members.
The Clarion's budget
comes from a student fee
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Cragg integrates work and leisure
by Leann M. Kicker
Kevin Cragg, Bethel's
new associate professor of
history is a returning na-tive
of the Twin Cities. At
first impression Cragg
likes Bethel. "It seems
that the resources here are
adequate so that a student
can get a good education.
And not just in academics,
Audit offers
economic way
to education
by Randy Pate
Ever want to sit in on a
class and not have to pay
the full tuition? You
can do it by applying for
the auditing program in
the registrar's office.
ze Auditing entitles you to
sit in on a class for one
semester, take notes and
any tests given if you
wish. It will appear as an
audit on your transcript
but you will not receive a
credit for the course. This
option is available for peo-ple
who are interested in a
learning experience.
The cost for auditing a
course is $80 per semester
or $45 per one-half semes-ter.
This cost remains the
same for summer school.
Once you start auditing
a course you cannot switch
for a credit. If you decide
to drop the course, the
money is non-refundable.
Auditing is primarily for
students who want some
courses outside of their
major. Bethel also wel-comes
any people of the
community who wish to
register as special stud-ents
and audit a course. For
more information see the
registrar's office.
FESTIVAL OF
CHRISTMAS
Tickets are now on sale for
the 24th annual Christmas
celebration of singers and in-strumentalists.
Bethel stu-dents
may purchase nontrans-ferable
tickets for $2 each at
the concession stand from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. daily. Tickets
for nonstudents are $3.50
each. Performance times are
Fri., Dec. 5, 8 p.m.; Sat.,
Dec. 6,8 p.m.; Sun., Dec.7,3
p.m. The Saturday perfor-mance
is presently sold out.
social too. There is some-thing
going on here almost
every night," he said.
Cragg came to Bethel
because he likes St. Paul
better than Chicago. And
he wanted to reestablish
family ties. "We thought it
would be nice to have
grandparents for the kids
and vice versa," he said.
Cragg also thought that
Bethel would provide him
some opportunities for
scholarly growth. But he
thinks that he has some
things to offer Bethel as
well, including a continu-ing
strength in ancient
history.
An approach to history
that is less traditional in-terests
Cragg, especially
in a Christian college. The
traditional approach con-centrates
on politics in
understanding history.
Cragg said, "I am more
interested in the common
man than the big shots,
although We end up spend-ing
a lot of time on the big
shots because they affect
the commoners."
Cragg teaches two sec-tions
of world civilization
to 1500 and one section of
Ancient Near East history
this semester.
Cragg came to Bethel
from Trinity College, Chi-cago,
where he served as
the chairman of the his-tory
department. He
worked at Trinity while
he wrote his dissertation
for the University of Mich-igan
and received his
Ph.D. in 1976.
Cragg did his under-graduate
work at Whea-ton
College, Wheaton, Ill.
He graduated with a B.A.
in history in 1967, and got
his M.A. in history from
the University of Chicago
in 1969.
After he got his M.A., he
and his wife went to Mon-tana
to teach on a Black-foot
Indian Reservation.
There he taught 6th, 7th
and 8th grades in the so-cial
sciences. However he
said he spent more time
disciplining than teach-ing.
From there he returned
to Chicago where he
worked on his Ph.D.
Cragg is interested in
history primarily because
he enjoys it. There is some
philosophical basis to his
interest too. Cragg said, "I
believe it gives me some
clues about current issues
and maybe some clues
about future society. I
think if more people un-derstood
history they
would make better lobby-ing-
type decisions.
At present Cragg is be-ginning
to work on a pro-ject
to find out what the
people in the ancient
world did about agricul-ture
pests, rats for exam-ple.
Cragg expects to find
much of his information in
Roman agricultural hand-books.
There may also be
some archeological evi-dence.
In order to under-stand
some of the ancient
methods, Cragg plans to
study modern methods of
controlling similar pests.
This work may take shape
as a long article.
Cragg finds it difficult
to separate his hobbies
from his vocation. Using
the techniques learned in
his reasearch, Cragg in-tends
to try to grow crops
using ancients methods, to
see if they have any prac-tical
application. Cragg
and his family grow most
of their own vegetables.
Crpgg has been married
for 11 years. His wife's
name is Carole. She was a
reference librarian for Tri-nity
College until their
last child was born. After
Nathaniel, now 15 months,
was born, Carole worked
for Lake Forest College as
a Library consultant until
their move to Minnesota.
The Cragg's oldest child is
8.
According to Cragg he
has been "practically every
denomination at one time
or another." Cragg then
listed chronologically: Pres-byterian,
Christian Re-formed,
House Church,
and finally Last Covenant
Church.
Presently the Craggs
are hunting for a church.
Cragg feels the need to
"settle down quickly for
the kids," he said. "They
affect what our expecta-tions
of a church are. For
them to have a peer group
with shared values is dif-ferent
than for our own
edification. This was a
problem at House church;
there were no kids. They
need to share values."
Cragg says he has "no
strong denominational loy-alties"
and only a few
strong doctrinal beliefs.
by Ginny Olson
Registration for Urbana
'81 has already begun. Ur-bana
is an Inter-Varsity
Christian Fellowship
(IVCF)-led missions con-ference
for college students
as well as church leaders.
The conference will take
place Dec. 27- 31, 1981, at
Urbana, Ill.
The theme for Urbana
'81 is "Let Every Tongue
Confess that Jesus Christ
is Lord." Each day special
speakers will deal with a
different aspect of this
theme.
Speakers include Billy
Graham, Robert E. Mun-ger,
Eva Den Hartog, Mari-lyn
Laszlo and Eric Alex-ander.
The focus of Urbana
'81 is reaching the unreach-ed
people, like the Mus-lims,
Hindus and Chinese.
The conference also fea-tures
workshops. There
missionaries can share
their experience on the
field. The workshops may
deal with things like wit-nessing
to Muslims or work-ing
at a camp.
Mission boards set up
booths so that students
can stop by and pick up
information as well ask
specific questions on a one-on-
one basis. There are
ptayer and Bible study
cells where students meet
in groups of eight to ten.
One student commented
on the amount of input
that comes from these dif-ferent
sources, "It's like
trying to take a sip from a
fire hose."
The main goal of the
Urbana conferences, ac-cording
to IVCF, is to glor-ify
the Lord Jesus Christ
by helping students find
God's place for them in the
world missions and thus
to serve the Church in
strengthening her ministry
in world missions.
IVCF emphasizes not
just giving the knowledge,
but sending students away
from Urbana with a burn-ing
in their hearts. Urbana
tries to deal with issues
that a student will most
likely face on the mission
field.
Bethel students who have
attended the conference in
1979 have commented on
how Urbana got them en-thused
about missions and
has opened up their eyes
to the needs around them.
Mark Whittemore, junior,
who attended in 1979, said,
"It got me thinking about
my priorities. There are
needs not only overseas
but right here in my own
back yard."
The cost of Urbana '81
is $145 if the $50 registra-tion
fee is paid before Dec.
1, 1980. After that, the
cost is $165. Registration
information is available in
the campus ministries of-fice.
Kevin Cragg, associate professor of history, has returned home
from Chicago to teach in the Twin Cities (photo by Dan Valie).
Urbana's registration begins
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He was born in Stroms-burg,
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He received his A.A.from
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WildHoney and Camel Hair
50's envelop Nik Dag
your newsletters. Be orig-inal,
be creative, be ima-ginative,
and don't forget
to think about sub-porting
the football team in their
last home game.
Monday evening is this
month's Film Forum, en-titled,
"Blow Up." The film
was the winner of the
grand prize at the 1966
Cannes Film Festival. It
starts at 7 p.m. in FA 313;
refreshments will be
served.
Wednesday at 9 p.m. in
the gym, Sweet Comfort
Band returns to Bethel Col-lege
for an encore perfor-mance
of their concert two
years ago. This outstand-ing
Christian rock 'n' roll
group will treat us to an
unbelievable concert, so
plan to be there. You will
not want to miss it. Tick-ets
are on sale in the C.C.
office 11 a.m. - 3 p.m., and
cost $3.50 for students and
$4.00 for the general pub-lic.
Get your tickets early,
because they will go fast.
by Ted Lewis
Once upon a time there grew a peaceful clan of cac-tuses
or cacti in a semi-desert valley. Sandy soil and hot
sunshine suited their slow-paced life very well. Besides
making beautiful flowers for display, they spent much
time retelling the folklore of their ancestors who first
inhabited the valley.
Now during a certain rainless season, several cherry
tree families journeyed in and took up residence in the
valley. The new trees settled their roots in a clearing
and the cacti hospitably offered their guests Water from
the valley brook.
For years relations between thecacti clan and cherry
families remained congenial. Flowers were often ex-changed
for cherries. But soon a new generation of
cherry trees sprouted up and their parents worried
about the lack of rain. So they dug irrigation canals
from the 'brook to saturate the ground.
Cacti, as you probably know, stand proud because of
their little dependence on water. So obviously many
troubled over the new excess of water. But another
problem arose. The older trees grew so large that shad-ows
fell upon adjacent cacti. Too much water roused
their attention. But lack of sunshine roused their anger.
On top of all this, the cherry trees reproduced faster
than the cacti and more expansively. A large tree can
drop a seed some thirty feet from its trunk, whereas a
cactus can only yield its offspring to the mercies of the
wind. And hence the two groups were breathing down
each other'S branches in no time.
One tense season the cherry tree leaders met for a
conference.
"What good are them cacti anyways? They can't pro-duce
a thing we need," blurted an outspoken tree half-way
through the meeting.
"Ya. And besides," followed another, "theyzz got
prickles all over! Who'd ever wanna git friendly with
them?"
"That's right. They're just stoppin' us from doin' what
the good Lord told us to do," returned the outspoken
one, "Take over the earth and be fruitful."
The votes were grafted in. Unanimous: the cacti
ought to leave the vall6y. From then on, the cherry
families pitted themselves against the cacti. Shadows
spread wider and water soaked the ground more heav-ily.
The discouraged cacti immigrated to the higher
sides of the valley. Others died from lack of sun and
abundance of water. Bold ones fought back to their own
death.
As time advanced, some olive tree families heard the
good news: fresh territory for planting had opened up
the valley. They pulled their roots,- packed their- bags
with rich soil and ventured out. After their first bounti-ful
harvest, they rejoiced in the liberty they found to
produce fruit.
Yet with expansion they too pressed upon the cacti
clan. And in order to defend their new rights to grow in
freedom, they joined the cherry trees in driving out the
cacti. Battles favored the prospering trees. Needles
flung by the cacti were no match for the pit-shooters.
Decades blew by. Other fruit tree families gravitated
towards the thriving valley. Fruit markets flourished.
But the cacti slowly lost their strength to compete,
having been constantly forced to move. A consortium of
fruit tree leaders alloted the cacti a small fenced plot on
a higher side of the valley.
The trees imported richer soils from tropical regions.
Water from distant lakes flowed in through pipes. Fer-tilizers
were manufactured.. Yet still the sun burned
long and the 'rains fell 'seldom for maximum produc-tivity.
"Let's construct a huge glass dome over the valley,"
brainstormed an orange tree. "Then we'll create our
very own atmosphere, like a giant terrarium." And so
they did.
From then on, all foreign plants were welcome to set
roots in the valley. But if they hoped to benefit from
growing there, they had to adapt to the new environ-ment.
A small remnant of cacti now sit on the valley side.
The rich minerals of the soil and fertilizers, the excess
of water and the shortage of the sun's dry warmth have
upset their natural way of life. Consequently, laziness
subdues them.
The cacti no longer feel strong as their ancestors
proudly felt. For the altered climate no longer encour-ages
them to endure. And the new environment only
says, "Compete to survive." But they can't; they just
aren't fruitful enough. When their flowers fade they will
die.
This is Nik Dag week-end
at Bethel College. It
is definitely one of the
highlights of the school
calendar every year, and
this year it is no different.
This year's theme is 50s,
and Friday night's activi-ties
center around it.
At 5:30 p.m., the Bethel
Soda Shoppe opens for ser-vice
in the coffee shop and
the cafeteria. Ladies, bring
your Frankie Avalon for
dinner served to you by
car hops on rollerskates.
Following the dinner, at
8 p.m., "The Scribes" will
be in concert in the gym.
This out standing 50s group
will be taking us back to
the era of bobby socks and
pony tails, leather jackets
and slicked-back hair....It
is even rumored that Elvis
will make an appearance.
Saturday the girl gets to
plan the activity. We have
come up with some sug-gestions
for you, so check
Scientific society selects Bethel alumnus as president
Dr. V. (Victor) Elving
Anderson, acting director
of the Dight Institute for
Human Genetics of the
University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, was elected
president-elect of Sigma
Xi, the Scientific Research
Society of America, dur-ing
the 81st annual meet-
_ ing in San Diego, Calif.
Anderson, a Bethel col-lege
and seminary alumus,
will assume the office of
president in July 1982. He
will succeed Dr. William
A Nierenberg, director of
Scripps Instil ution of Ocean-ography,
University of Cali-fornia,
San Diego, whose
term begins July 1981.
Sigma Xi is among the
world's oldest and largest
scientific societies. It boasts
a membership of more than
120,000 scientists who
have made significant re-search
contributions in
their fields or demonstra-ted
an exceptional apti-tude
for conducting origi-
Dr. V. Elving Anderson, alumnus of Bethel, has been elected
president-elect of scientific society-Sigma Xi.
Actors borrow Oriental techniques in Doug Briggs' "A Celebra-tion
of Psalms." Music, lighting and slides will help create an
atmosphere of worship (photo by Dan Velie).
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by Debbie Anderson
"A Celebration of
Psalms" is not a play in
the traditional sense, ac-cording
to Doug Briggs,
director of the production.
"It is an experiment in wor-ship,"
he said.
Bethel's second play of
the season, "A Celebration
of Psalms," has not been
written yet, but will be
created by Briggs and the
cast, similar to last year's
"Bereshith." The play will
be taken entirely from the
book of Psalms.
Instead of using the
usual western-style of thea-ter,
they plan to borrow
theater techniques from the
oriental theater. For exam-ple,
the production will
not have a plot but instead
will try to create and con-vey
a mood to the aud-ience.
As in oriental thea-ter,
the production is per-formed
in a meditative
tone.
portive action. The publi-cation
would be placed on
close reserve in the library
or added to the circulation
shelves. Should more than
300 people wish to have
the magazine, then senate
would decide on a way to
have it distributed. This
process would have to be
repeated each year if stu-dents
continued to want
the publication here.
Senate also passed a bill
approving the proposed
project which they had dis-cussed
the week before.
The first project they will
work on at Bethel is revamp-ing
the jogging trail. They
are also looking for an out-side
group to support, such
The actors will employ
a variety of oriental tech-niques
too. They will play
both good and bad charac-ters
through the use of
masks. The actors will
speak together both as a
chorus and antiphonally.
A type of mime movement
will also characterize the
production.
In this movement, singing
and speaking will be done
in coordination with the
"Psalmist," the narrator
who is played by Doug
Briggs, the director of the
play.
Special effects will add
to the uniqueness of "A
Celebration of Psalms."
Sticks, rocks and other per-cussive
tools will provide
some of the music. Record-ed
music, special lighting
and slide projections will
also be used.
Briggs said that west-ern
theater often seems
contradictory to worship.
For this reason he chose to
borrow techniques from
as Hope missions or a com-munity
center.
The first money-raising
project for the proposal
will be a movie night Nov.
24.
Chapel Schedule
Monday—Art De-partment
Tuesday—Mulford
Sibley Convocation
Wednesday—Lee
Eliason
Thursday—Mulford
Sibley Convocation
Friday—Drama De-partment
eastern theater.
Although theater seems
to be a new dimension in
worship, Briggs said that
it is really a very old form
that the church has forgot-ten.
"Theater, explained
Briggs, actually had its be-ginnings
in religion.
Briggs stressed that the
, play is intended to be a
worship experience. He
hopes that "A Celebration
of Psalms" will "draw in
the audience vicariously
so that they will be caught
up in the emotion of the
From the , November 4,
1964 issue
Nik Dag hunting season.
"From the Ridiculous to
the Sublime" was the
theme of Nik Dag 16 years
ago. Hunting season open-ed
on a Monday,with acti-vities
planned for the en-tire
week.
Two Laurel and Hardy
films were shown Wed-nesday
and , Thursday
nights, with tenor soloist
Emmanuel. Mansfield sing-ing
Friday evening. Sat-urday
evening a one-act
drama titled, "A Fabulous
Tale," highlighted the
week's events. The pro-gram
began at 7 p.m. in the
fieldhouse, "to enable the
girls to take their dates to
dinner following the pro-gram."
"Corsages made by the
girls highlighted the inter-est
of their dates, (and
Psalms."
November 13- 15 and 18-
22 are the performance
dates of the play. On Fri-day
the 14th, a portion of
"A Celebration of Psalms"
will be performed in cha-pel.
Tickets go on sale Oct.
27th and are $3.50 each.
Season tickets for the four
Bethel productions, "A Cele-bration
of Psalms," "Mary
of Scotland," "The Mad-woman
of Chaillot," and
"Hans Christian Anderson
Tales," are available for
$10.50.
were) judged on their ori-ginality."
Mock election.
Barry Goldwater won
in a mock presidential elec-tion,
with 60 per cent of
the school voting. Stu-dents
favored Goldwater
by 54.2 percent. "The staff
also favored Goldwater
while the faculty favored
Johnson, both by a slim
margin."
Statistics revealed that
a higher percentage of up-perclassmen
voted in com-parison
with the freshman
and sophomore classes.
Upperclassmen were split
almost 50-50 between John-son
and Goldwater, while
freshmen favored Gold-water
two to one.
"Although the Republi-can
trend held, it was not
as strong as in past years.
In 1956, with 57 per cent of
the school reporting, Pres-ident
Eisenhower received
87 per cent of the votes
cast.
"In 1960, the campus
went overwhelmingly Re-publican.
With 70 per cent
of the school voting, nine-tenths
favored Nixon."
Civil rights convocation.
Discussion of civil
rights was the subject of a
three-day convocation
series. "Three aspects of
civil rights (were) consid-ered
separately by men
informed in each area: the
legal aspect, Negro
thought in 1964 and the
Christian and human
rights."
Briggs directs a form of ritual drama
by Patty Sutton
Student senate passed a
bill stating their policy on
free outside publications
at their Tuesday night
meeting. The Twin Cities
Reader prompted senate
discussion on the issue.
To have an outside pub-lication
on campus which
is free to the community
requires the support of an
organization or depart-ment.
The first step in get-ting
senate support of a
publication would be to
approach two of its mem-bers.
The two senators would
then have three days to
distribute petitions around
Bethel, gaining signatures
of students wanting the
publication on campus.
If the publication re-ceived
over 100 signatures,
the senate would take sup-
Outside publications get conditional okay
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Pamela Madson (completing a dig above) played well in the middle during the final games
of the volleyball season (photo by Doug Barkey).
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Clubs add variety to academics
by Sue Fahrenkamp
Want to add fun and fel-lowship
to college life?
Academic clubs around cam-pus
offer a of variety educa-tional
and social exper-iences.
Included in current
academic clubs are the
Spanish Club; Veritas, the
pholosophy club; and Chi
Sigma Delta, the music
club.
These clubs sponsor dif-ferent
activities. The
Spanish Club meets for
dinner every Monday'
night in the Royal Oak
Room. Club members speak
Spanish, see slides and dis-cuss
Spanish culture.
Veritas does not have a
regular meeting time. Acti-vities
include guest speak-ers
and verbal interaction.
Last weekend some facul-ty
and club members attend-ed
the Wheaton Philosophy
Conference. Veritas also
sponsors social activities
such as picnics and volley-ball.
Chi Sigma Delta also hosts
guest speakers. It is invol-ved
in the activities of Fes-tival
of Christmas and the
Spring Festival as well as
planning music chapels. The
club hosts social activities
such as a picnic in the fall
and a dinner in the spring.
Students can become in-volved
in the Spanish Club
and Veritas simply by at-tending.
Students must for-
Volleyball, from page 8
defeated by two upper di-vision
schools: Winona, 7-
15, 9-15 and Southwest
State, 15-17, 15-4, 13-15.
Bethel also lost to St.
Mary's 1-15, 9-15.
Book said, "We used last
weekend as a period of
transition to integrate a
new defense. The major-ity
of other conference and
state teams use it and we
needed this defense to be-come
natural and automa-tic.
I was pleased with
how we played, especially
against Southwest.
They're a good team and I
think we surprised them."
"JoAnn Griffin played
her best volleyball of the
year. She always hits well,
but she did especially well
deflecting blocks. Mandy
Fawley also played well
in the middle against Wi-nona,"
Book commented.
"We needed the time to
make the transition and
we did it beautifully,"
concluded Book.
The Royals played their
last two home games last
mally join the Chi Sigma
Delta Club by registering
and paying dues.
Students involved in these
clubs said they are benefi-cial.
Steve Pent, co—presi-dent
of the Spanish club,
lived in Latin America for
15 years. He said, "The
club gives me a chance to
talk to other students inter-ested
in Spanish." Pent also
said that it gives him a
chance to help students
learn Spanish language and
culture.
Veritas helps philosophy
students broaden their exper-ience.
Lisa Cooper, a phi-losophy
major said, "I think
the club is a good way to
learn and a good way to
get to know the professors
better." Joel Jacobs said
the club gives him "verbal
and physical fellowship."
Chi Sigma Delta helps
students broaden musical
knowledge. Jeff Murray, a
junior music major, said,
"I like the music club be-cause
it gives different ex-periences
than those I get
in class."
Each club has different
goals. The Spanish club ,
according to advisor Cur-tis
Barnett, attempts "to
practice spanish and en-joy
it outside of class."
The purpose of Veritas is
week, devastating St. The-resa's,
15-7, 15-5 and 15-3.
"Everyone played well.
We were trying our new
defense but St. Theresa's
didn't give us much to de-fend,"
said Book.
"Mary Olmstead did
very well digging. Pam
Madson and Denise Ny-gren
did real well in the
middle," pointed out Book.
. Last week Bethel was
defeated by Dr. Martin
Luther College after four:
13-15, 8-15, 19-17, 13-15.
The junior varsity team
was victorious last week
against St. Theresa's: 15-6,
14-16, 15-13 and Dr. Mar-tin
Luther College: 15-12,
11-15, 15-12.
"to provide a forum for
exchange of ideas and to
enrich the academic atmos-phere,"
said Don Postema,
assistant professor in phi-losophy.
Chi Sigma Del-ta's
aims `to broaden expe-rience
and knowledge
through guest speakers,"
said Mary Fall, advisor.
The Spanish Club and Ver-itas
are informally organ-ized.
Chi Sigma Delta is a
formally organized club,
and this club is a student
section of a national organ-ization
associated with the
Music Educators' National
Conference.
None of these clubs is
formally recognized by Stu-dent
Senate, so the fund-ing
is from participating
students.
Football, from page 8
But St. Thomas was
penalized, Lutton took the
penalty and made them
kick it over. "We thOught
that by reducing the area
he had to punt from, he
would get off a worse
kick. Their punter just got
included in tuition.
Banta summed up the
Clarion's purpose in this
year's September issue:
"Our purpose is to re-flect,
to lead and to inform.
By reflection we strive to
show the Bethel commun-ity
how it looks, not
through rose-colored glass-es
but through a crystal
clear window. We hope to
lead the communtiy with
insightful reporting and in-vestigation,
as well as care-ful
suggestions and needed
advice."
What is the best part of
working on the Clarion?
"I like learning new
things about how to put a
paper together," comment-ed
News Editor Shari God-dard.
"Working with people,"
said Banta.
What is the worst part
off a clutch punt."
Jeff Wilson had a spec-tacular
kick that went
out-of-bounds at the six
yard line. The defense
held the Tommies to a
gain of eight yards, and
they had to punt. They
took too much time to get
the play off and they were
of Clarion production?
"Staying at school til 2
a.m. (on some Tuesday
nights)," said Goddard.
The Clarion staff would
like more response from
their readers.
"It's hard to write to an
audience that doesn't re-spond,"
said Banta. "It's
like giving a speech to an
audience that's asleep."
New this year, besides
the majority of the staff, is
a special 12-page issue put
out every three weeks.
The staff also hopes to
have color printing and
color photos in the Clarion
sometime this year, if their
budget allows.
penalized five yards.Then
the punter got off a bad
kick that went out-of-bounds
at the St. Thomas
40-yard line. It looked like
the Royals had a great
chance to really win this
one.
AnderstrOm's first two
passes were incomplete,
and Bethel faced a third-and-
ten situation. Ander-strom
threw a screen pass
to Flater, who scampered
for 28 yards, aided 'by a
key block from Kelly
"Bando" Brandes.
Only five seconds re-mained
in the game. An-derstrom
faked a handoff
and threw a bullet to Rich
Graves in the corner of the
end zone. Graves grabbed
the pass, and the game
belonged to the Royals.
Graves was mobbed by
fans and players as the
Royals celebrated their
second win of the season.
Lindberg's kick made the
final score Bethel 20, St.
Thomas 17.
"The team really de-served
to win one like
that, after being beaten
badly earlier and then los-ing
a close one to St. Olaf
last week," Lutton said.
The Royals, the number
one passing team in the
conference, take on Augs-burg
Saturday, - 1:30 p.m.
at Bremer Field.
Clarion copy, from page 3
Doyle Paulson and Greg Stipe, both defensive backs for the Royals, smash St. Thomas' Scott
Robinson to the ground (photo by Paul Gavic).
Intra-murals gain participation
Senior Brent Friesen competes in his last cross-country race of
his college career. Friesen placed 23rd in the District meet.
Page 8
by Phil Almeroth
Casey Stengel, the mas-ter
of mispronunciation,
once stated it well: "The
game isn't over 'til it's
over." Dick Motta once
said, "The opera isn't over
until the fat lady sings."
And the Bethel Royals
once again proved this
time-worn concept last
Saturday as they snatched
victory from the jaws of
defeat against St. Tho-mas,
20-17.
The way the Royals
started out, it looked like
the Tommies were in for a
long day. After St. Tho-mas
had one possession,
Bethel got the ball on their
own 10-yard line and
marched all the way down
to the visitors' 11-yard
line.
Quarterback Jim Ander-strom
made three big pass-es
for first downs: to Pete
Kramka and Ken Cooper,
both for 14 yards, and to
Rich Graves for 15 yards
to the Tommie 18. But the
drive stalled; Paul Lind-berg
kicked a 28-yard field
goal, giving the Royals a
3-0 lead.
The next time Bethel got
the ball with good field
by Ellie Abbott
Last Saturday Brent
Friesen ended his Bethel
cross country career by
running his best time on
any cross country course
that he has run on in his
four years at Bethel. Frie-sen
covered the five-mile
golf course in 26:37, fin-ishing
twenty-third in the
district meet, and missing
qualifying for the national
meet by only eight places.
St. John's easily won
districts with 28 points.
Behind them were Moor-head,
Hamline, Bemidji,
St. Thomas, Bethel and
Winona. Macalester, Augs-burg,
and St. Scholastica
competed, but as incom-plete
teams.
Although the Royals
did not place high among
the teams in the district,
Coach Glader was satis-fied
with his team's per-formances.
"Most team
members ran their best
time of the season, so in-dividually
it was satisfy-ing
and a good way to end
position and took advan-tage
of it. Two runs by
Brad Flater, a pass from
Anderstrom to Doug Hill
for.18 yards and a run,by
Anderstrom brought the
Royals to the St. Thomas
10-yard line. Anderstrom
then hit Cooper in the end
zone and Lindberg's extra
point gave Bethel a 10-0
lead.
But St. Thomas fought
back. The Tommies took
the kickoff and drove 73
yards for a touchdown
that brought them within
3 at 10-7.
The Royals got the ball
back after Rich Duehn re-turned
the kickoff to . the
28. On the first play An-derstrom,
who was 19 for
33 for 253 yards on the
day, hit Pete Kramka for a
gain of 23 yards. Flater
and Dave Kadlec com-bined
to carry the ball for
10 yards and another first
down. Then Flater was
thrown for a loss and An-derstrom's
pass to Cooper
fell short of the first down.
Paul Lindberg came and
made a 49-yard field goal,
pushing the Royals' advan-tage
to 13-7.
Four plays later, the
Tommies intercepted a
pass intended for Cooper
the season," commented
Glader after the meet.
Dwight Newman was
second runner for Bethel
once again placing 45th
with a time of 27:49. Be-hind
Newman were Ross
Allen in 49th place, Ross
Fleming in 61st and Doug
Newman in 68th. Tim
Synder, Mike Nelson and
Rob Peitzman finished
close together placing 73rd,
76th and 78th respectively.
Steve Odegard and Mike
Dirks were not far behind
and placed 81st and 82nd.
Although Coach Glader
will lose Friesen, Doug
Newman, and Steve Ode-gard
to graduation, the
,other team members are
expected to be back to run
next year.
Sports Events
Men's Basketball: Nov.
15, alumni, home, 5:15
p.m.
Hockey: Nov. 14, alum-ni,
home, 7:15 p.m.
at the Bethel 45. It took
them eight plays to drive
down to the Royal 10-yard
line, and there they kicked
a 27-yard field goal that
gave them a 17-13 edge
with just 3:45 left.
Then a freak play al-most
turned out to be the
Royals' downfall. Bethel
had the ball deep in their
own territory after a St.
Thomas punt. Ander-strom
dropped back to
pass, but his throw was
deflected and intercepted
by a St. Thomas lineman.
On the very next play the
Tommies scored and took
a 14-13 lead into the half-
*time locker room.
The teams battled
through a scoreless third
quarter with the only scor-ing
threat from St. Tho-mas
when they missed
a 31-yard field goal.
The fourth quarter was
also scoreless until the
last seven minutes. Bethel
had the ball on its own 42-
yard line. Flater fumbled
after he has hit, and St.
Thomas recovered. But on
the very next play, defen-sive
back Greg Stipe inter-cepted
a St. Thomas pass
on his own 14-yard line.
see page 7
undefeated and beat Cen-tennial
in the champion-ship
game 18-7. To get to
the finals, both teams had
to win tough semi-final
games, with Off-Campus
defeating Arden Village
III 8-0, and Centennial
downing Fountain Ter-race
North 13-0.
In the championship, an
interception return for a
touchdown by Rod Mc-
Coy, and two touchdown
passes by Dave Fauth
won the game, as Centen-nial
managed only a touch-down
pass from Jeff Cow-meadow
to Bob Giddings.
In men's volleyball the
Wesaka U. Divers singles
undefeated, winning the
final match 15-13, 15-10.
Here are the winners from
all completed activities:
IM HONOR ROLL
FOOTBALL: Dave
Fauth, Steve Penner, Lar-ry
Erickson, Jim Larson,
by Becky Dye
The Bethel women's
volleyball team competes
in the State Tournament
at Macalester college this
weekend. Bethel entered
the tournament with a 20-
8 record and was seeded
ninth.
The tournament started
at noon today; Bethel
plays at 4 p.m. against
Morris, 6:30 p:m. against
Moorhead and 7:30 p.m.
against Dr. Martin Luther
College. This schedule de-
Paul Harrison, Mark Sten-berg,
Phil Almeroth, Rod
McCoy, Brice Russell, Ron
Nelson, Dave Anderson,
Tom Holm, Rich Jaeger-
OFF-CAMPUS.
WOMEN'S SOCCER:
Diacou/Lee Troopers
TABLE TENNIS: Men's
Singles—Craig Englund;
Men's Doubles—Craig En-glund,
Robin Buchett; Wo-men's
Singles—Anne Stu-art;
Mixed Doubles—
Anne Stuart, Arnie Boich
GOLF: Randy Johnson
CROSS-COUNTRY:
Todd Benson
MEN'S VOLLEYBALL:
Tim Travaille, Tim Till-man,
Tim Steele, Randy
Johnson, Neil Kaiser,
Mark Johnson, Bo Ceders-jo—
WESAKA U. DIVERS
BADMINTON: Men's
Singles—Dean Almberg;
Women's Singles—Betsy
Koonce
UPCOMING EVENTS:
backgammon, volleyball
pends upon the spikers
success in each match.
"We're psyched to play.
We were seeded lower
than we expected so we're
going to have to play like
every match is the last.
We'll have to score some
upsets," commented Coach
Cindy Book.
Last week Bethel com-peted
in the Winona quad-rangular
meet. Bethel was
see page 7
Royals nip Tommies, 20-17
by Phil Almeroth
The first two months of
school have seen an in-crease
in participation in
all intra-mural activities.
From football to ping-pong
there have been rec-ord
numbers of partici-pants,
and a lot of compe-tition.
_ In football, Off-Campus
went through the season
Men's X-C ends season,
team runs satisfactorily
Spikers compete in states,
excited to upset other teams

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Dr. Spock (Frank Sanza) and the crew of the "Improvise" disco-vered
an all-girl planet in Monday's Nik Dag chapel (photo by
Mug Barkey).
The Sweet Comfort Band will perform in the Robertson Physical Education Center, Wednesday,
Nov. 12, at 9 p.m. Tickets are $3.50 in advance, ithrough the campus coordinator's office, and $4 at
the door (photo courtesy) of the Dan Newby agency).
e Clarion. Vol. 56, No. 9 Bethel College, St. Paul, MN Nov. 7, 1980
Nik Dag weekend transports 50's to 80's
by Brad Nauman
Well, men, it's that time
of the year again. The roles
are reversed and the wom-en
do the asking. The grand
old tradition of Nik Dag
has rolled around once
more and the population
of Bethel has been in an
uproar all week.
The action began with
Nik Dag chapel Monday,
when open season was de-clared
on the male popula-tion
here at Bethel. The
women were instructed to
by Ginny Olson
Back by popular demand—
the Bethel yearbook, "The
,Spire." This year will be
the first time since 1976-
77 that The Spire has been
• published.
The Spire was discon-tinued
a few years ago for
lack of student interest,
"not just at Bethel, but all
over, there was a lack of
school spirit," said Sandi
Covert, editor. Why is it
being brought back? "Peo-ple
began asking 'How
come Bethel doesn't have
a yearbook?"' said Covert.
She also added that these
is more of a sense of
school spirit now than
before.
make. a large replica of the
first inital of their first
name to present to the guy
when they nikked him.
The guy had to wear this
letter pinned to his shirt
the rest of the week. The
women were invited to
bring their "nikkees" to a
soda fountain at the school
Monday night.
Tonight, it's back to the
50's. The evening starts
with a soda-fountain-type
dinner in the coffee shop
and the cafeteria. Milk
Dona Amann, the assis-tant
editor, said that the
name "The Spire" will be
retained. "The original
meaning of a spire is the
top of a church. The
church spire was located
at the center of town. You
could look up and see
which way was north,
south, east or west.,..you
could get direction from
it..." Amann said. She said
this is what Bethel is, a
place where students come
to find direction.
The Spire will not take
the place of the Roster as
far as having every stu-dent's
picture in it. Only
seniors will have individ-ual
photos. The rest of the
book will be made up of
shakes, sundaes and other
types of "fast foods" are
available. The meal will
be followed by a concert
in the gym with the fan-tastic
50's rock 'n' roll
group, "The Scribes."
The Scribes feature the
golden tones of Bethel
alumnus Dave Broza. After
the concert everyone is in-_
vited to stay around for
ice cream sundaes in the
gym. Saturday is left open
for the couples to do what
mainly action shots. Co-vert
said, "We're going to
try to show sports, stu-dent
organizations and
student and dorm life."
Coyert, along with 16
staff members, is working
towards a 240-page book
with 10-12 sections. The
Spire is being financed by
student activity fees as
well as donations of alum-ni
and ad sales.
This year "Passages,"
the former Bethel literary
magazine, will be a color
section in the yearbook
(although other color pho-tos
will be scattered
throughout). Passages con-tains
poems, short stories,
essays, photographs, paint-ings,
sketches, etc., done
they want.
Over the years, Nik Dag
has proven to be a popular
event. Women get a chance
to go out with that shy guy
they have had their eye
on. The men get a chance
to give their wallets a
well-needed rest. Nik Dag
weekend is also a popular
time of the year for par- ,
ents of Bethel males be-cause
for some unexplain-ed
reason a lot of guys
pick that weekend to pay
a long-overdue visit home.
by Bethel students, facul-ty
and alumni. There will
be a contest with prizes
for outstanding submis-sions.
see page 3
by Ginger Hope
Cuts in this year's bud-get
totalling about
$100,000 were finalized in
August. Students, faculty,
staff and administration
probably feel some effects
already, according to Dean
George Brushaber.
Since salaries and other
employee compensation
are already under con-tract,
they are not subject
to re-examination. One
area where cuts were made
is the purchase of new
equipment for mainte-nance,
food service, dor-mitories,
athletics, and
science. Travel budgets
have also been hit, as well
as long-distance phone
calls and the purchase of
office supplies.
Another major cut was
the removal of the $15,000
experimental program al-lotment
from this year's
budget. This money would
have been used to test new
ideas in the academic and
student life program, ac-cording
to Brushaber..
Brushaber cited some
concrete examples of the
impact decreases might
have on everydy life
at Bethel. A smaller bud-get
for supplies, for in-stance,
might cause an in-structor
to use an over-head
projector rather then
distribute mimeographed
copies to the class.
Athletic team meals will
probably shift to more eco-nomical
menus. The all-school
banquet will be
held on campus again this
year, as the cost would be
nearly doubled if it were
held elsewhere.
Major budget revision oc-curs
nearly every year, of-ten
as large as this year's.
However, Brushaber said
that now the financial sit-uation
is more difficult
than usual.
The unexpectedly rapid
rise in the rate of inflation
affected it drastically.
Even if a certain budget
remains the same, its buy-ing
power is reduced.
Discrepancy between
expected enrollment and
actual enrollment also
forced budget cuts. Dur-ing
initial budget-plan-ning
stages, administra-tion
expected 2,080 stud-ents.
When final revisions
were made in August, the
prediction had sunk to
2,020-2,040.
Actual enrollment is
2,064. The loss of expected
revenue, while not as great
as feared in August, is still
about $52,000.
The leasing of the Cen-tennial
Gardens to accom-modate
the large number
of housing requests com-plicated
matters further.
Bethel subsidizes student
rent on all the apartments,
but at Centennial Gardens
the subsidy is greater than
at. Silvercrest or Fountain
Terrace.
Another unforeseen fac-tor
affected the financial
situation: the final figure
on federal work-study
funds was roughly $25,000
less than expected.
But Dan Nelson, direc-tor
of financial aid, said
this decrease has been off-set
by an unexpected in-crease
of about $23,000 in
state work-study aid, so
the student employment
program will be able to
handle federal cut-backs.
Spire aspires to point direction
Budget cuts hit Bethel
letters
Lifestyle renewal denies adulthood
editorial
Lifestyle issue solved
only by individuals
Thou shalt not . . . . Every Bethel student knows the
dictates of the lifestyle statement. We also know that
many break that standard. The problem is a complex
one, In an effort to counter apathetic attitudes, the stu-dent
senate has voted to require that all students re-sign
the lifestyle statement each semester.
While at first glance this idea seems admirable, for it
is at least an attempt at a solution, it raises some legal
and ethical questions that must be considered.
The new recommendation assumes that the length of
time between freshman year, when the contract is sign-ed,
and senior year dulls concern for keeping our word.
By re-signing the statement, raised awareness will
supposedly cause us to keep our word more diligently.
The problem does not lie in unawareness. All of us
know about the lifestyle. Chapel speakers try to shame
us with it and we are either amused or shocked by
friends' infractions of it..How could we not know?
The new re-signing recommendation, in effect, says
that we are responsible for our word for only one
semester at a time. Do we value our word so little?
The policy also raises some legal questions. Can the
administration require everyone to sign the statement
when they signed it under the impression that the con-tract
would be binding for four years? If, for some
reason, a person could not sign the statement one
semester, could that person be held to their word by a
previous signature? What could be done with those
who refuse to sign it again? Requiring something new
of students may be a breach of contract.
This recommendation at least tries to find some
answers to a question many of us only wink- at. This
solution, however, raises more questions than answers.
The problem does not lie in unawareness—it lies in a
basic disregard for the keeping of our word. And that
problem cannot be solved by student senate starting
administrative policy. The solution must come from
within each of us as individuals.
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